John Carew in tattoo fail

Peyton Manning

This is too funny to go unnoticed.



John Carew's new tattoo is supposed to read "My Life, My Rules" (in French) but the accent over the E is facing the wrong direction, and as such, language professors have said that it actually says "My Life, My Menstrual Period". :pac:

Google Translated Link here

Xavi6

Get off Twitter and get a job hippie! :pac:

flahavaj

He should squeeze that spot below his ear as well. Begging to be popped.:pac:

missingtime

That spot is strangely distracting....

The_Kew_Tour

He got bigger man boobs then myself.

Pro. F

The OP is seriously lacking thanks. That is funny as fúck :pac:

[Edit] just read that link. Ah no Brady that's not as good. The tattoo is just wrong. If the accent was the right way it would still have two possible meanings - rules or menstrual period.

You sir are a sensationaliser! [/Edit]

Peyton Manning

Pro. F wrote: »

The OP is seriously lacking thanks. That is funny as fúck :pac:

[Edit] just read that link. Ah no Brady that's not as good. The tattoo is just wrong. If the accent was the right way it would still have two possible meanings - rules or menstrual period.

You sir are a sensationaliser! [/Edit]

Ah I misread it in that case. But still, I imagine it's the English equivalent of somebody wanting a badass "My time is now" tattoo getting a "My period is now" tattoo

dreamers75

Why would a swedish dude a get a tattoo in french? why do irisk lovely gurls get chinese menus on their asses?


lifes little mysteries.

Yakult

Grammar nazi's are going to love this..

Pro. F

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Ah I misread it in that case. But still, I imagine it's the English equivalent of somebody wanting a badass "My time is now" tattoo getting a "My period is now" tattoo

lol yeah it does sound funny when you say it like that.

invinciblePRSTV

John Carew, Carew,
He's lazier then me or you,
He might score one or two,
Then miss matches because of 'flu'
John Carew, Carew.

pickarooney

Now why would someone from the associated press feel the need to run to a series of linguisic professors to find information available in any pocket dictionary? And why mention the fact that (dun-dun-dun!) a word might have two meanings?

What you can't see under the the collar of his jumper is "de grammaire de d'orthographe."

Pro. F

pickarooney wrote: »

Now why would someone from the associated press feel the need to run to a series of linguisic professors to find information available in any pocket dictionary? And why mention the fact that (dun-dun-dun!) a word might have two meanings?

What you can't see under the the collar of his jumper is "de grammaire de d'orthographe."

They rang the professors because that's what the press do. It carries more weight if you get the word from the horses mouth.

And Tom's post above shows why it's funny, or could be funny, if it is equivalent to the example he gave.

So go on clever clogs, what does the French bit mean?

Sir Gallagher

invinciblePRSTV wrote: »

John Carew, Carew,
He's stuck with a shit tatoo
He might score one or two,
Then miss matches because of 'flu'
John Carew, Carew.

Fyp :pac:

pickarooney

Pro. F wrote: »

They rang the professors because that's what the press do. It carries more weight if you get the word from the horses mouth.

It really doesn't. Asking a linguistics professor to provide knowledge that any ten year old child with access to the internet and ten seconds to spare makes you look like you're wasting people's time on some pathetic crusade to make fun of a footballer for the entertainment of the drooling classes.

And Tom's post above shows why it's funny, or could be funny, if it is equivalent to the example he gave.

It's about as funny as someone having a tattoo saying "My life, my rules" and some clown falling about the place saying "but rules can also mean 12-inch sticks of wood used for measuring! And Life is also the name of a popular American periodical!".

So go on clever clogs, what does the French bit mean?

My life, my rules of grammar and spelling.

Mars Bar

pickarooney wrote: »

It's about as funny as someone having a tattoo saying "My life, my rules" and some clown falling about the place saying "but rules can also mean 12-inch sticks of wood used for measuring!

Ruler?

pickarooney

mars bar wrote: »

Ruler?

No, 'rule'. It means the same thing but it's less common used, which was my point.

_blank_

Yakult wrote: »

Grammar nazi's are going to love this..

there shouldn't be an apostrophe in that sentence.

invinciblePRSTV

Des wrote: »

there shouldn't be an apostrophe in that sentence.

There should be a capital letter at the beginning of that sentence.

The_Kew_Tour

You should all get back on topic FULL STOP.

DH2K9

Shouldn't it be written in Norweigan?

bamboozling

dreamers75 wrote: »

Why would a swedish dude a get a tattoo in french? why do irisk lovely gurls get chinese menus on their asses?


lifes little mysteries.

John Carew is Norwegian. :rolleyes:

dreamers75

bamboozling wrote: »

John Carew is Norwegian. :rolleyes:

Theres a difference ? :pac:

pwd

He probably thinks he is of Norman descent. Carew Castle is a Norman castle in Wales. Carew is the name of the area though, not the builder. As a surname it appears to be of Cornish origin.

Pro. F

pickarooney wrote: »

It really doesn't. Asking a linguistics professor to provide knowledge that any ten year old child with access to the internet and ten seconds to spare makes you look like you're wasting people's time on some pathetic crusade to make fun of a footballer for the entertainment of the drooling classes.

I wouldn't trust the translation abilities of some random journo, or some child as you suggest. I would more likely trust the word of a professor of the language. People make mistakes when translating all the time. Just looking something up in a dictionary is not a very sure way of getting a good translation. And since they wanted to go to somebody for a reliable translation, it's reasonable to go to the best source available. It's standard practice.

Some people got a laugh out of it. You clearly think the humour is beneath you. I would suggest you get over yourself.

pickarooney wrote: »

It's about as funny as someone having a tattoo saying "My life, my rules" and some clown falling about the place saying "but rules can also mean 12-inch sticks of wood used for measuring! And Life is also the name of a popular American periodical!".

You don't actually know that. It could be as funny as Tom said, or it could be as mundane as you say. Either way it's a bit of harmless diversion. If you didn't have a snobby attitude about the whole thing you might have been entertained yourself.

evil_seed

Maybe he's a Dr Alban fan

~Rebel~

to be fair to the OP, it does appear regles is a very common term for a period. Even just the wiki shows this; http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation

A quick google of the word features much more heavily in period related things (please noone at work check my internet usage for today!) than it does for "rules"

Peyton Manning

When asked about his tattoo mishap, Carew threw a hissy fit and blamed the media for not supporting him, and not buying him flowers. He said he shouldn't have to ask for flowers, and that it would be nice if every once and a while he was surprised with some. Five minutes later he was bawling his eyes out apologizing.

greendom

pwd wrote: »

He probably thinks he is of Norman descent. Carew Castle is a Norman castle in Wales. Carew is the name of the area though, not the builder. As a surname it appears to be of Cornish origin.

He spent a couple of years in France - that may have influenced him.

pickarooney

Pro. F wrote: »

I wouldn't trust the translation abilities of some random journo, or some child as you suggest. I would more likely trust the word of a professor of the language. People make mistakes when translating all the time. Just looking something up in a dictionary is not a very sure way of getting a good translation. And since they wanted to go to somebody for a reliable translation, it's reasonable to go to the best source available. It's standard practice.

Ask yourself how the 'story' itself was presented to the 'newspaper' - hot scoop, possible mistake in angle of diacritic in tattoo on footballers neck, quick -call in the ministry of diacritics! If you're going to make a story out of nothing to appeal to idiots why waste someone's time with it? It's not as though the type of bug-eyed cretin who slobbers over this kind of 'article' would have the contacts to verify the source with the king of French grammar or the manual dexterity to open a dictionary. The very fact that the newspaper would apparently go to such lengths to research something so unutterably inane while at the same time pulling fifty stories with an actual football angle out of their arses on a daily basis is staggering.

You don't actually know that. It could be as funny as Tom said, or it could be as mundane as you say.

It really isn't that funny.

Either way it's a bit of harmless diversion. If you didn't have a snobby attitude about the whole thing you might have been entertained yourself.

Yeah, in a thread designed to poke fun at a tattoo artist's poor grasp of the intricacies of accent markings, I'm the snob.

Pro. F

pickarooney wrote: »

Ask yourself how the 'story' itself was presented to the 'newspaper' - hot scoop, possible mistake in angle of diacritic in tattoo on footballers neck, quick -call in the ministry of diacritics! If you're going to make a story out of nothing to appeal to idiots why waste someone's time with it? It's not as though the type of bug-eyed cretin who slobbers over this kind of 'article' would have the contacts to verify the source with the king of French grammar or the manual dexterity to open a dictionary. The very fact that the newspaper would apparently go to such lengths to research something so unutterably inane while at the same time pulling fifty stories with an actual football angle out of their arses on a daily basis is staggering.


It really isn't that funny.


Yeah, in a thread designed to poke fun at a tattoo artist's poor grasp of the intricacies of accent markings, I'm the snob.

Having a laugh at a footballer's dodgey tattoo is a bit of harmless entertainment.
Getting in a huff about the thread and calling the people who enjoy the joke slobberring bug-eyed cretins is having a miserable and snobbish attitude.